College Football World Debating New Clock Change For 2023 Season

College football's new rules are already causing quite a debate on social media. 

The clock no longer stops after every first down in college football. Under the old rules, the clock wouldn't run until the chains were set for the next set of downs.  

Steve Shaw, the national coordinator of officials, listed a few reasons as to why this change was made.

“No. 1 is to keep the game moving, the pace of play,” Shaw said. “No. 2 is to modestly take out plays in the game. In FBS, we averaged 178 plays per game last year. If you look at the NFL, they averaged 151 plays per game — so, that’s a pretty significant difference. There is not a target goal but just the idea that we wanted to modestly reduce the number of plays per game. The commissioners support that as well. And finally, we want our clock mechanics to be exactly the same between every official.”

While those reasons are certainly valid, not every single person is a fan of the clock running after every first down. That was made abundantly clear during this Saturday's game between Navy and Notre Dame.

"12 plays and half the quarter is gone after one drive. Just like the NFL. Congrats on the new clock rules in CFB. Something everyone wanted. Thanks," Geoff Schwartz sarcastically said.

"We all agree that the clock no longer stopping after first downs in college football is fantastic, right? I can watch a college football game without committing 4 hours of my day to it," Talkin' Hawks wrote.

"The clock needed to change," Sam Dekker commented. "College Football games have no business taking 4+ hours every single time. NFL length game is perfect."

The new rule should allow the game to flow at a much faster pace, which won't sit well with fans who like to spend their entire Saturday watching college football.